I configured 2.2.3 (also tried it with earlyer versions of python
and still broken)
With the following options
--prefix=/soft/python-2.3 --exec-prefix=/soft/python-2.3/debian3

when you do the following python:
import sys
sys.prefix
sys.exec_prefix

both sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix are set to /soft/python-2.3

Its causing problems when I try to install scons.

Thanks,

Kent Mein

this works now:
$ ./configure --prefix ~/soft/ --exec-prefix ~/soft/deb3
...
~/release25-maint/ ~/soft/deb3/bin/python                          
ralf@red ok
Python 2.5.3a0 (release25-maint, Mar 14 2008, 18:19:57) 
[GCC 4.2.3 (Debian 4.2.3-2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.prefix
'/home/ralf/soft'
>>> sys.exec_prefix
'/home/ralf/soft/deb3'


please close this issue.

Done.